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Girl Scout Cookies Paired With Cheese And Wine! Wait! What?

Feb 20, 2022

Untitled — Thin Mints, the Epicurean Connection Delice de la Vallee or Laura Chenel chevre & 95476 Brut Secco (Image: CheeseProfessor.com)

Recently, my daughter Karina and I were playing around in the kitchen since we have extra time during COVID stay-at-home orders. We received an order of Girl Scout Cookies and decided to pair them with cheeses, and since we are Sonoma Valley, which is also wine country, we then decided to pair them with wines.

On the same day, we happened to be tasting wines from La Prenda Vineyards for our virtual upcoming cheese and wine classes, so it was quite convenient to have 12 bottles of wine open. We tasted all the wines with the cookies and narrowed our pairings down.

Pairing Girl Scout Cookies with the cheeses had not really occurred to me until now. By incorporating the wines, we could really find a nice balance of the sweet cookies, the flavor of the cheese and finish with a glass of wine. It was a really fun project, and we have a few more like this up our sleeves, so stay tuned.

Support your local Girl Scouts, your local cheesemakers and winemakers. Here are our tasting notes. Enjoy!

Do-Si-Dos, Valley Ford Estero Gold, a drizzle of honey & 95476 Chardonnay (Image: CheeseProfessor.com.)

1. Do-Si-Dos, Valley Ford Estero Gold, a drizzle of honey & 95476 Chardonnay

The Do-si-dos, with the richness of Valley Ford Estero Gold combined with the buttery Chardonnay, was a perfect dessert.

2. Thin Mints, the Epicurean Connection Delice de la Vallee or Laura Chenel chevre & 95476 Brut Secco

Thin Mints, the Epicurean Connection Delice de la Vallee or Laura Chenel chevre & 95476 Brut Secco (Image: CheeseProfessor.com)

This was like eating brunch. Bubbles and Thin Mints with a spread of Delice de la Vallee on top was a meant to be pairing.

3. Toffee-Tastic, Point Reyes Toma, Happy Wife Red Blend

Toffee-tastic (Image CheeseProfessor.com)

The Toffee-tastic cookies really brought out the caramel flavor in the Toma along with the nice light style of Happy Wife Red will be perfect for an afternoon tasting, as the 3 were really meant to be a pairing. The wine has aromas of mixed berry pie and warm vanilla spice and has just enough oak and soft tannins to make it a substantial red.

4. Samoas, WM Cofield Cheddar & Sonoma Collection Pinot Noir

Samoas, WM Cofield Cheddar & Sonoma Collection Pinot Noir (Image: CheeseProfessor.com.)

The Samoa was ready to pair with a Pinot Noir and be finished off with a piece of the earthy and delicious cheddar. This would make a great cheese board and paired with Carneros pinot noir with its medium body, dry and smooth, with plenty of acidity. It won Double Gold in 2020 at the Sonoma County Harvest Fair.

5. Tagalongs, Nicasio Reserve, 95476 Malbec

6. Trefoils, Lucy A Goat Milk Brie, Dried Fruits & Happy Wife Rose

Trefoils, Lucy A Goat Milk Brie, Dried Fruits & Happy Wife Rose (Image: GirlsScouts.org)

The shortbread style cookies, Trefoils, were perfect with dried fruits and a Rose; the flavors all balanced together.

7. Girl Scout S’mores, Marin French Petit Blue & Fifth Hill Pickberry

Girl Scout S’mores, Marin French Petit Blue & Fifth Hill Pickberry (Image: CheeseProfessor.com)

S’mores go with anything, especially a Petit Blue and a Pickberry, a rich and full-bodied wine. The Petite Blue is best described as a cross between a brie and a blue cheese, a mold-ripened triple crème cheese. Pickberry is the name of a vineyard near Glen Ellen in Sonoma, and the wine is typically a blend of reds like merlot, cabernet sauvingon, cabernet franc and petite verdot

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